Development and Evaluation of a Novel Digital Product Development Tool Dataset

Introduction
Jack Frank Rutherford ([e-mail]) is a Masters Student at the University of Strathclyde developing novel digital product development tools supervised by Dr Ross Brisco ([e-mail])
Over three months, the researcher, Jack Frank Rutherford, partnered with the Design Engineering Team at the National Manufacturing Institute of Scotland (NMIS) to digitise their PD Toolkit. Following this collaboration, the researcher developed an application that facilitates the digital 6-3-5 ideation method alongside other digital PDTs.
The tool was tested with master’s students at DMEM, University of Strathclyde and Design Engineers at NMIS. Three Design Engineers and nine DMEM students participated in the experiment. As the researcher is a university student, there was limited access to participants and available time of only one semester. The selected participants had a wide range of experience with the 6-3-5 ideation tool throughout their degree or career.

What is the purpose of this investigation?
This investigation was used to determine the success of the digital tool compared with paper based use of the 6-3-5 method.
Participants were introduced to the 6-3-5 analogue paper-based method and the new prototype 6-3-5 digital PD tool via a sketching tablet. One Sketching tablet was used with two paper-based 6-3-5 templates. After each round, the paper-based templates and the sketching tablet rotated to allow each of the participants to use the digital PDT on the tablet

What happens to the information in the project?
Public data will be stored on the Strathclyde servers PURE.
The University of Strathclyde is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office who implements the Data Protection Act 1998.

Contact details:
Principle Investigator: Dr Ross Brisco
Department of Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management
University of Strathclyde
James Weir Building
75 Montrose St
Glasgow
G1 1XJ
Telephone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

This investigation was granted ethical approval by the Department of Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management Ethics Committee.
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Secretary to the University Ethics Committee
Research & Knowledge Exchange Services
University of Strathclyde
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Glasgow
G1 1QE
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